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Inside India’s Unfolding Healthtech Revolution
Thanks to a convergence of factors, India has a rare window to leapfrog on health just like telecom and banking.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Asia Healthcare to Raise up to $350 Million From New and Existing Investors
The capital raised will be used by Asia healthcare Holdings to acquire new single-specialty healthcare businesses in India.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing
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Digital Health Platform Doctor Anywhere Closes US $65.7 Million Series C Round in Southeast Asia
At SGD US $65.7 million, it is one of the largest private funding rounds ever raised by a healthtech company in Southeast Asia.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Pandemic Threatens Asia-Pacific’s Progress on Global Development Goals, Says Asia Development Bank
"As the socioeconomic impacts of responses to the virus continue to unfold, people already struggling to make ends meet are at risk of tipping over into a life of poverty," the Manila-based lender said.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- global development, SDGs
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Innovation in Action: Lessons From Healthcare Innovators That Rapidly Pivoted To Respond to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced health-focused social enterprises to adjust their methods and priorities, shifting their modes of patient engagement and even developing entirely new programs. Innovations in Healthcare, a nonprofit housed at Duke University, studied a group of health innovators working in low- and middle-income countries to understand these shifts. Victoria Hsiung, Sowmya Rajan and Katie Flowers share insights from a recent white paper analyzing how these organizations have adapted, assessing four groups' choices and exploring the lessons learned.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Analysis: A Fiscal Tightrope: Comparing the COVID-19 Recovery of Advanced and Emerging Economies
The effects of COVID-19 are still expect to cause ongoing problems such as poverty and malnutrition, which will make the Sustainable Development Goals unattainable.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Analysis: COVID-19 Caused a Global Setback in Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights, Especially for Women
The exceptional measures governments and health authorities used during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as lockdowns, quarantine or reorganizing health services, directly affected the full realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Global
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- human rights
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Analysis: How Civil Society Organizations Can Help Tackle Pandemics
Capacity building of community-based organizations can enable better access to education and vaccination programmes.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- vaccines
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